# Can I be notified when changes have been made to a perticular webpage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-notified-when-changes-have-been-made-to-a-perticular-webpage/614941>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 6, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-notified-when-changes-have-been-made-to-a-perticular-webpage/614941 "2012-03-06T17:17:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fantome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Fantome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fantome)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-notified-when-changes-have-been-made-to-a-perticular-webpage/614941/1 "2012-03-06T17:17:29Z")

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Every Thursday morning a website that sells tobacco pipes puts out new pipes that sell very quickly. The time the page is updated with new pipes varies. Is there a program I can use that will send me an email the moment the page is updated rather than refreshing the page constantly to see if it’s up yet?

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**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-notified-when-changes-have-been-made-to-a-perticular-webpage/614941/2 "2012-03-06T18:00:43Z")

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Here is an article “Ten free ways to keep track of website changes” that might be helpful:

[http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/02/08/10-free-ways-to-keep-track-of-changes-to-any-website-without-rss/](http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/02/08/10-free-ways-to-keep-track-of-changes-to-any-website-without-rss/)